ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how E. Bleuler attempted to reconcile the two great traditions in German speaking psychology in the context of Schizophrenia. Psychosexual development and the problems attendant on faulty development have been mentioned in Sigmund Freud’s thinking on the aetiology of Schizophrenia, but Freud also considered problems in this area to be responsible for a whole range of character disorders. C. Rojek at el have catalogued how, in the context of social work, Freudian terminology has been misused and misunderstood. They talk of the way such concepts as transference, counter-transference, ‘acting-out’, resistance, ‘testing out’ and manipulation are used to negate and dismiss the experiences of clients. In a sense, as Rosen has pointed out, the growth of a physiological and positivistic approach in Nineteenth Century psychiatry cannot be solely attributed to a negative reaction to the increasing failure of the metaphysical and psychological moral therapy.
